Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) is key to modernising Europe’s industrial base. Beyond maintaining productivity, it is the enabler for more efficient, more effective and more sustainable technologies within existing assets and processes.

As manufacturing and infrastructural facilities age, such upgrades to existing systems become increasingly important as a means to meeting demand for longer and more competitive asset lifecycles. To ensure that North West Europe’s assets continue to reach their potential, a coherent set of policies and programmes on innovation, human resources and maintenance industry norms/standards is needed – much of it at European level.